Why so high?

[mikmo]

What elements of a swing influence the height of ball flight?

My friend and I played yesterday and both of us have extremely high ball flights. Into the wind we were losing a lot of distance.

 

[bobmac]

The angle of attack
Clubface position at impact
Launch angle (loft of the club)
Speed of swing (more speed, more spin, more height)
Swing plane
Where you strike the ball on the clubface

Into the wind, people generally lose distance because they hit the ball harder. This creates more spin which sends the ball higher and stalls at the top of its flight and drops like a stone like thing.
To hit it lower into the wind, try and move the ball back in the stance a bit (2-3 in) and swing smoothly

HTH

 

[mikmo]

Yeah launching them far to high. Even with my low irons. In fact there is very little difference in distance between my 4-9 irons! All just launch up in the air.

 

[bobmac]

Yeah launching them far to high. Even with my low irons. In fact there is very little difference in distance between my 4-9 irons! All just launch up in the air.

Do you have a video of your swing?
Do they go a little left to right?

 

[mikmo]

I don't have a video, I'll try and get one up though. Would be great to get some guidance from yourself and the other readers.

Yeah I do hit left to right a bit. Had a lesson on Friday, the pro said I have an out to in swing (leaving a divot facing a few degrees left of centre). We did some work on trying to change swing path but it isn't coming naturally and I'm hitting the ball fairly straight so loathed to make the big change!

 

[jammydodger]

No point having that lesson if you arent going to try to correct your faults. You felt strongly enough to have the lesson so get stuck into the corrections and it'll pay off long term.

GL

 

[Hendy]

Something the same as myself.. I fine playing a low shot with my irons really hard..

But in saying that i have a 9deg G5 stiff flex driver and i can hit that nice and low and get alot of extra run on the fairways.

 

[TonyN]

Mikmo, This is the answer to curing that fade/slice if you want to.

Click here for 3 ball drill video

Be warned, it does take time, Took me a couple of months to get it completly grooved and I still sometimes use it to warm up with.

I would use the first 20-30 balls at the range for this drill and then the remaining 20-30 without, trying to replicate it!

 

[bobmac]

Mikmo,
Click here for 3 ball drill video

Tony, if I may........
If you want to use the 3 ball drill, make sure there is no-one around you, because if you get it wrong, balls go flying everywhere.
Safer to have the ball in the middle and replace the other balls with 2 tall tees stuck in the ground
or even better, 2 pieces of sponge that will go flying if hit

HTH

 

[JustOne]

...or two handgrenades for the do-or-die quick fix

 

[USER1999]

I tried this with two plastic discs. They are out in the middle of Edgeware driving range if anyone wants them.

 

[marmar]

I tried this with two plastic discs. They are out in the middle of Edgeware driving range if anyone wants them.

I tried with some loose change, lost a fortune. Would have been cheaper to have a lesson.

 

[TonyN]

Yes granted Bob, it can get messy. Anything really will work. The balls are always just the things handy at the range.

I started off with them quite wide just so I had the path to follow, once I got confident, I closed the gap, eventually, there was just enough room for the club head!

 

[mikmo]

Sounds interesting. I'll give this a go.

Take your point jammy dodger it's just that i've finally got the ball going (reasonably) straight... now I've got to make the rather substantial change of swinging out to in (fade) to swinging in to out (draw)! Depressing!

 

[mono217]

Sounds like a good drill to use.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I think to improve you sometimes need to take a few steps back to make giant strides forward. I'd go with the drills your pro gave you and work on them until they are natural. It means you'll probably hack on the course and have a real hard time at the range but you have to stick with it and believe